THE CRADLE OF MANKIND
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THE RIVER OF EDEN. (The Zab entering the Tyari Gorges). The view down stream from the mouth of the Ori valley, a little above Tal. The distant snow peak is Ghara Dagh on the southern side of Tkhuma. No. 1
THE RIVER OF EDEN.
(The Zab entering the Tyari Gorges).
The view down stream from the mouth of the Ori valley, a little above Tal. The distant snow peak is Ghara Dagh on the southern side of Tkhuma.
No. 1
THE CRADLE OF
MANKIND
LIFE IN EASTERN KURDISTAN
BY
THE REV. W. A. WIGRAM. B.D. (Camb.) D.D. (Lambeth)
AUTHOR OF “THE HISTORY OF THE ASSYRIAN CHURCH”
AND
SIR EDGAR T. A. WIGRAM
AUTHOR OF “NORTHERN SPAIN”
ILLUSTRATED FROM SKETCHES AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY
SIR EDGAR T. A. WIGRAM
SECOND EDITION.
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A. & C. BLACK, Ltd.,
4, 5 & 6, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.1.
1922
First Edition published May, 1914.
Second Edition, with two additional Chapters,
published Autumn, 1922.
The truth is, that ye ken naething about our hill country, or Hielands as we ca’ them. They’re a kind of wild world by themselves, full of heights and howes, caverns, lochs, rivers and mountains, that it would tire the very deevil’s wings to flee to the tap of them. And the folk are clean anither set frae the likes of huz; there’s nae bailie-courts amang them—nae magistrates that dinna bear the sword in vain. Never another law hae they but the length of their dirks; the broad-sword’s pursuer, and the target is defender, and the stoutest head bears langest out.
Sir Walter Scott (“Rob Roy”)
